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August Schleicher

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August Schleicher

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German philologist (1821–1868)

Person · Open Library

Works
20

Top works

  • Laut- Und Formenlere [!] Der Polabischen Sprache
  • Die Formenlehre der Kirchenslawischen Sprache, Erklärend und Vergleichend Dargestellt
  • Die Wurzel AK in Indogermanischen
  • Compendio Di Grammatica Comparativa Dello Antico Indiano, Greco Ed Italico
  • Sprachen Europas in Systematischer Übersicht

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1945-05-10
Active to
2015-01-17
rock

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
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Key facts

Born
( 1821-02-19 ) 19 February 1821, Meiningen , Saxe-Meiningen , German Confederation
Died
6 December 1868 (1868-12-06) (aged 47), Jena , Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , North German Confederation
Known for
Contributions to Indo-European studies Schleicher's fable

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Works in European collections

11 objects attributed to August Schleicher, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

August Schleicher ( German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈʃlaɪçɐ]; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it.

Life

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